Benin without Iron Deficiency
Benin without Iron Deficiency
Individual people, programmes, and institutions have limited capacity to address complex challenges in isolation. Collective social innovation is a key lever for change.
Project mission
Our mission is to improve family health in Benin by shifting current intervention designs to improve health outcomes, and scaling innovative interventions to prevent and treat iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) across the country.
With key stakeholders, we are mapping an innovative system for adapting, scaling, and implementing sustainable interventions. Through these efforts, we will co-design a framework to ensure success of intervention implementation at all levels and with all stakeholders.
To meet this goal we are conducting multiple research and co-design activities, some of which include:
engaging with experts-by-experience to develop a Library of Community Experiences (Library). Knowledge from this library will improve on current intervention design and delivery to combat ID/IDA, and provide a resource for others involved in intervention design and evaluation, so that interventions can be developed and implemented with and for communities in Benin.
establishing an alliance 'Alliance Against Iron Deficiency / Alliance Contre la Carence en Fer (ACEF)' to decrease the evidence-to-practice gap through multidisciplinary and multisectoral collaboration, centred on community needs and wants and co-design effective intervention and implementation strategies to prevent and treat ID and IDA in women and children in Benin.
Click here to read about our research and co-design activities!
Research Highlights
We are actively conducting research and analyses! Read more about our ongoing efforts, past projects...
...and stay tuned for more updates and our findings.
Contextual inquiry summary of implementation determinants for a trial on iron deficiency in Benin:
Summary of results
We conducted a contextual inquiry on the implementation determinants of a field trial in Benin that explored a community-based intervention to treat iron deficiency. The purpose of this research is to better understand women’s individual and contextual factors that influenced the trial's success through an intersectional lens.
Read the summary of results here!
Partnerships & Funding
Get involved
As we continue our efforts to adapt and scale interventions, we hope to develop a working group with interested partners.
Interested in getting involved? Contact us!
© Wilding-Davies & Connor (2023)